Out of Touch

The British government yesterday seemed on the verge of declaring the EU Constitution dead, or at least calling off the U.K.'s own referendum on the treaty, which amounts to the same thing.

But as the EU's leaders scramble around for a Plan B that they insisted all along (truthfully, as it turned out) they never contemplated, some pretty bad ideas are starting to surface. Our nomination for one of the worst (so far) goes to Austrian...